A few weeks ago I decided that it would be a good idea to backup all my photos. Currently I have over 4000 photos, which amounts to 6 GB. So the question was what was the best method? This task went on the todo list and I pondered the best way to go about this. [...]
The new version of WordPress adds additional protection for cookies. It is very much worth adding the config option mentioned, since it helps protect against problems where a database have already been compromised. Hot on the heels of WordPress 2.5.0 is the security update – WP 2.5.1. Rumours that I have as many draft posts [...]
Photos: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 My Route From waking up on Saturday morning I was never feeling too great and this was reflected in my run. While my navigation and route choice was ok, I never managed to get a decent pace going. For the first couple of controls my [...]
I have been using Minefield for a while. This will be released as Firefox 3 at some stage next year and there have been some good improvements. Recently I switched to using this runscript to solve the problems of using the non-default Firefox. Through the -no-remote switch I can also use Firefox 2 at the [...]
I noted in the tech press last week that Automattic had acquired Gravatar. Matt has posted the code to enable gravatars on his blog. I rather like the idea behind gravatars and have enabled them on this blog.
Tip #6 : Enhancing WordPress administration: Whenever I update a WordPress blog I think how overly complicated the ‘Write Post’ page is. There are lots of different pieces that you could use – most of which I have never had cause to touch. The post linked to suggests using Clutter Free to improve matters and, [...]
As with many people, my computer rarely gets turned off. It was with interest that I noted the following coming through the blog world in the last week. Less Watts This site, from Intel, describes methods available to reduce power consumption on all types of machines running Linux. Available is software and tips that work [...]
The Wall Street Journal reminds us that ‘It’s been 10 years since the blog was born.‘ I have been blogging for just over half of that time – my LiveJournal is five years old. Recently I have been reading more about OpenID. While doing so I found OpenID Delegate WordPress Plugin, which allows me to [...]
Recently the importance of making regular backups of important data was brought home to me. My desktop machine has two, old 40GB drives in it and one of them failed. It seems to have died completely – certainly I have not been able to get it to mount using any of the commonly available tools. [...]
The main struggle I had when I first started coding in Ruby on Rails was working out how to use tests. Ruby, and Rails, have a great testing framework, but I had no background in knowing how, and what, to test. As I have progressed with the language I have become more confident in writing [...]
I cannot remember where I got the first of these tips from, but I really am grateful for learning of it. I spend a fair amount of time ssh-ing into various machine I use. Having to type out the full command ‘ssh [machine name]‘ is quite annoying – especially as some of the full machine [...]
For my day to day internet browsing I use Firefox. One of the great features of Firefox is the ability to extend the browser using Add Ons (or extensions as they used to be known). Last week I cam across FaviconizeTab. This extension allows you to reduce certain tabs so that all that is displayed [...]
How to mount a remote ssh filesystem using sshfs I stumbled across this a few days ago and set it up on my work machine today. Seems to work very well and cuts out the need for using scp to transfer files back and forward between the machines I use. Mainly posting this here so [...]
